A shoe artist has created trainers for horses

An artist has created trainers for horses - nope we're not foaling around!

Marcus Floyd is a shoe artist from Lexington in the US, and he created Horse Kicks as a way to help horses neigh, ahem slay, in some designer trainers.

He uses a medical horse shoe as a base for his designs, then customises them using trainers by Nike, New Balance and Adidas for inspiration.

The horse shoes are part of a collaboration between Marcus and VisitLEX the Lexington Tourism board.

"One of the craziest collaborations to date for me," said Marcus on his social media. "It was a dope process trying to figure out what a horse sneaker would look like while using as much from the 'REAL' shoe as possible."

"It was a unique challenge for sure. As far as I know, I'm the only one in Kentucky doing cut and sew reconstruction of sneakers, and definitely the only one in the world doing it for horses." said Marcus.

"Lexington, Kentucky is home to the world's greatest equine athletes" said Marcus on his website.

"For far too long, these multi-millionaires have been fitted with boring, traditional horseshoes. Horse Kicks is here to change that." he said.

"If Lebron James can have his own custom sneakers, why can't American Pharoah?" said Mary Quinn Ramer, the President of VisitLEX.

The Horse Kicks Fall 2022 collection will be auctioned off at the Sneaker Ball Lex charity event in November.

The shoes will be pretty pricey though, with each custom shoe starting at $1,200 (that's about about £1,070).

Marcus said that part of the money raised from the shoes would be donated to Sneaker Ball Lex, and its charities.

Marcus studied the art of shoe deconstruction and reconstruction (taking apart and re-building) at The Shoe Surgeon's SRGN Academy, and before he made kicks for horses, he customised trainers for people.

The shoes in the Horse Kicks autumn 2022 collection are inspired by the Fragment x Air Jordan 1 High, "Court Purple" Jordan 1, "Dazzling Blue", and the New Balance 650.